Giggs: We Made Chelsea Look Ordinary

August 10, 2010

Manchester United beat Chelsea 3-1 in this year’s Community Shield and rarely looked out of their comfort zone. Edwin Van der Sar made a couple of great saves whilst United put their efforts in spots the keeper couldn’t get to.

Ryan Giggs has today conceded that the Shield doesn’t mean an awful lot, but shows what United are capable of.

“The Community Shield does not have a direct bearing on what is going to happen over the coming months but it does send out a marker,” said Giggs. “I felt we controlled the game – Chelsea are a good team and at times we made them look ordinary. If you look at the squad at Wembley, there were players who didn’t even get on the bench. There’s Raphael, Macheda, Brown Cleverley who has done brilliantly pre-season. There’s Ferdinand and we’ve got Anderson to come back. We have got a really strong squad to injuries permitting throughout the season we can be stronger than last year.”

13 Comments

Well let's hope so because if Agency France-Presse are to be beleived Ozil is gone to Barcelona, 4 year deal £8.3 million. I would have personally preferred a more defensive midfielder anyway and allowed Anderson to play further up which is where I gather he was really effective when we began to get interested but either way - looks unlikely Ozil is coming to OT - disappointed that we havent done more with CM - Cleverly is still v young and Carrick has a lot to do with Fletch if Hargo and Anderson are out for a while....

Thats harsh Giggsy. I thought Chelsea did ok. Had a few decent chances but Vds made some excellent saves. We were more clinical

Also Chelsea arent as well prepared as we are. We had only 3 of the 11 who started playing in South Africa,. Chelsea had 9 of the 11 so understandably they were a bit sluggish. Wont affect them against West Brom or Wigan though. Should win those. When we play in the league it will be much much tighter

Right i understand that they had more players starting that played in the world cup but what does that say about their squad depth?
Anyway they becomin like the bitters very delusional now a days spoke to a chelski fan on my flight last night and he said 'isn't it ironic united fans call us old and an aging team yet your best player was a 35 yr old and you brought on a 36 yr old in giggs while we brought on a 18yr old'
I couldn't stop laughin at his stupidity.. Told him that he should be worried that a 35 yr old made their 1st choice midfield look shit! And fuckin hell their most important players are all over 30 besides essien while we have nani rooney evans tony v all under 26 yet he reckons we past it
Then he had the cheek to tell me chelsea have better youngsters than us Fuck me i was shocked the guy next to me who supports burnley even couldn't help but chuckle and he quickly mentioned to the chav the names macheda hernandez cleverley rafael fabio welbeck and to my surprise he even told the chelsea support about ravel morrison who he later told me is highly ranked around the country .. The chav shut his dirty mouth the rest of the way as he could only come up with 2 or 3 chav youngsters that we knew let alone rated

scholes put on a clinic played deep was spraying 40yd passes all over the place chelsea didn't put any pressure on him,valencia was taking cole to the cleaners all day and chelseas defense looked slow think the defense is going to be a problem for them this year

Yes the Charity Shield is a hyped up friendly, but I noticed that on the United Wiki page that it changed from one of the most succesfull to joint most succesfull alternatively the Liverpool page changed from the most to joint most. Bet that pissed them off.

aig - I don't think it's unfair of Giggs to say that, it's not our fault they had players in SA, we did too, it's just we have a huge squad of quality players and a lot of youth that will be going to Brazil.

Rooney The New King. On the blog said it perfectly in my opinion."Thats put down a marker".
I thought the boys were sensational.Mind I get carried away and excited watching football.
The drink disnae help either when I am watching football.lol
Off Topic sorry Jaysus England Under 21's are being put through there paces tonight.Some horrendous tackles on Tom Cleverly.Unscathed just, I must add.
The team from Uzbekistan set of Growlers.
England2 Uzbekistan 0
Tom Cleverly probably best player on the park.